Lestrade soon announces that the woman killed herself and her name is Emilia Ricoletti (Natasha O’Keeffe.) All is fine until it is spoken that later that night, she appeared from a horse and trap and shoots dead her husband. It’s all very confusing, especially when we see that the four and half the room is on the street. This is the first indication we get of her being the abominable bride. Lipstick is smeared over her white face and she is shouting ‘you’ whilst aiming at men who scurry past her. We see a woman stood on a balcony dressed in a white wedding gown holding two pistols. He misdiagnoses the police officer as being embarrassed, Watson correcting him as being afraid instead. Lestrade then begins to explain to the men what is wrong. Watson gives Lestrade a drink which is swiftly consumed before Holmes begins to deduce what Lestrade’s problem is. Holmes soon deduces from her perfume alone that it is Watson’s wife, Mary Watson (Amanda Abbington.) After the two have a short domestic and Holmes plays what is known as ‘John and Mary’s song’ (featured in The Sign of Three) on his violin, Sherlock speaks to himself, seeming to be deep in his mind palace, then asking Lestrade (Rupert Graves) into the flat without even seeing it is him, only knowing from the heaviness of his step. Hudson (Una Stubbs) before heading to the main living room where a woman, dressed in black is stood.
It is also a great scene as it showcases what an ‘odd’ man Holmes is.Īfter the newly fashioned title sequence, we see Holmes and Watson return to 221B Baker Street in a horse and cart and are greeted by landlady Mrs. This scene is exactly how I imagined it to be whilst reading the book and is just as funny and heart-warming. The first Victorian scene is from A Study in Scarlett, the first book in the Conan Doyle series, where Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Martin Freeman) first meet after Watson returns from Afghanistan and is in need of a flat mate. The Victorian-set special entitled The Abominable Bride starts with a simple recap of the past nine episodes that one would think to be completely unnecessary as this is a stand alone episode, however it later transpires it is very necessary. The series, which hasn’t had a new episode since mid January 2014, returned last night for it’s Christmas special. Sherlock as been one of Britain’s most popular TV shows for the last six years, with each 10 episodes gaining over 8 million views.
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